Eminem is an actor playing a character -- he says so himself. Like him or not (and I happen to hate him) what he does qualifies as "art". If Eminem glorifies rape then Arnold Schwarzenegger glorifies killing police officers, since a character he played once killed 17 of them in a West Highland Police Station in 1984. Ironically enough, the last line he uttered in that scene - "I'll be back" -- has been around for 20 years and has been used as a slogan in political campaigns. I don't think anything Eminem says will be part of the vernacular in 2028. He'll be long forgotten. He certainly won't be a conservative governor of the most poplous state in the union.
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